The Wizarding World removes Muggle memories when the Muggles see things they aren't "supposed to". This has kept the Wizarding and Muggle Worlds apart for hundreds of years. For example, the wizards don't the Muggle because the Muggle is hidden and the Muggle gets away. The Wizarding World finds ...

I'm curious if there are any fiction created with either of two concepts: An alien civilization that would might capable of greater than light-speed travel would likely have made major discoveries in communication much sooner. It seems likely to me that such a life form could use some sort of r...

I doesn't need to be specifically termed "X-ray vision" but that should be how it is understood. This specifically leaves out X-ray viewers that people look at, but permits self-motivated robots, like the titular creature in "The Twonky" (1942; Kuttner, Moore). I'll also accept gamma-ray vision...

There are these two story-identification questions that seem to be asking to identify the same thing: Anime with boy who can grow crystals on his body, posted in July 2021 and currently unanswered Anime where the MC is a boy who can grow green crystals/gems on his body, posted in December 2022 a...

I am looking for a short story about an alien or possibly a robot looking for sources of food. The story was read in a school English comprehension text book in the UK in the early 1980's. Story is as follows: A man is running a petrol/gas station and diner in the desert, I assume in the US from ...

A PB short story collection I read in the 1992-2002 era included a story in which a man was sinking into dementia. Appreciating that the progressive nature of the disease would make it hard for him to recognize the right time, he programmed a robot butler with his values and memories. He secret...

So iv read this book and cannot remb its name. It s fantasy obviously. There is a girl who gets approached or saved by a glittering creature who gives her a key on her tongue through a kiss(he 4nds up raping her along with 3 or 4 more). She also has a mentor a more old not so pretty man. There is...

I just searched on "communicator later versions of star trek" and the images I am seeing resemble the now old-fashioned flip phones which were so prescient and/or inspirational to tech designers 30 years later. (I have seen that the controls and view panels are using holographic interfaces and we...

In book 13 of the Starship's Mage series, "Nemesis of Mars," there is a large timeskip and what feels like a recap of past events. One of these events is the capture of a facility by Roslyn Chambers that saved hundreds of thousands of workers; this was covered in book 12. There was also a subsequ...

In this story someone gets an ear piece that tells him exactly what the best thing to do would be to get a promotion at work or whatever. Over time he and the conch develop their own language instead of English to be more efficient, so eventually the conch is just transmitting binary signals at h...

While its established that Din Djarin is a foundling, every other mandalorian we've seem so far seem to have their own clan colours. He also dosen't have a clan other than being a 'clan of 2' with young grogu, earning his own sigil a fair amount of time after becoming a bounty hunter. While his '...

I was just re-watching the Stargate SG-1 episode "Threads". As Carter finds herself in an awkward moment with Jack and his recently found companion at his backyard barbecue, she is interrupted by her cell phone. To answer the call, she takes out something looking more like a woman's compact than ...

I'm looking for a short story that I remember reading, probably in Asimov's (but perhaps in Analog or F&SF), probably in the mid 1990s (unlikely to have been before 1985, or later than 2000). The main features I remember of the story was that it took place on a toroidal planet or moon, and involv...

I'm looking for manga where MC is playing a VR game but gets summoned to another world by a female god in order to kill an evil god. During the first chapter he kills a frog as soon as he is summoned into the other world in order to have supplies. After that he builds a house in order to not have...

Nanotechnology as per Wikipedia is - the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabrication of ...

YA: Science Fiction/Romance: Book Set In Future. Augmented Reality, Teens Wear Headpieces That Display Messages Directly To Their Brains. The main characters (teens) wear devices on their heads that are a brain-computer interface to display messages directly to their brains. The teen goes to a ...

I was thinking on the effectiveness of starfighter attacks in Star Wars and I got a doubt: do shields stop a starfighter that want to fly in the area it protects? During the Battle of Scarif, a few X-Wing attack an Imperial Star Destroyer and destroy its shield domes. During the attack the X-Wing...